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peer review

n. an examination and evaluation of the performance of a professional or technician by a board or committee made up of people in the same occupation. This may arise in determining whether a person has been legitimately discharged, denied promotion or penalized by an employer, or is found to have failed to meet minimum standards of performance and is thus liable in a lawsuit claiming damages due to negligence.

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They might then choose to submit their work to a traditional journal, for peer-reviewed publication.

Cause and effect: Chris Graf asks: what happens to research quality when we change the peer review and the research publishing model?

claim that a goal of all scientists is to generate and disseminate new scientific knowledge, and peer-reviewed journals are the major avenue for disseminating such knowledge (there is no alternative to peer review to control the quality of scientific publications.

The pressure of publishing in academia

Another reason why I am honored to be a part of this organization is because the only editors who can be members are ones who are in charge of determining the scientific content of a "peer-reviewed biomedical journal." WAME defines a peer-reviewed biomedical journal as "one that has submitted most of its published articles for review by experts who are not part of the editorial staff."

The importance of peer review

One of these is EHP-in-Press articles, These articles are peer-reviewed papers published in downloadable PDF file format within 24 hours of acceptance.

Giving a voice to environmental health research

A: I am not an advocate of alternatives to traditional peer review, and we need to be clear that the open access movement is about freeing access to peer-reviewed articles, not about freeing those articles from peer review.

Information hijacking

For us to maintain a viable and well-respected peer-reviewed journal for professional school counseling, it is imperative that the rigor of the review process be maintained and that all published manuscripts have been properly reviewed.

Getting published in Professional School Counseling

In his endnotes, Lomborg cites the numerous non-peer-reviewed exaggerations, misleading statements, and outright falsehoods offered up by environmental activists and gullible reporters, then refutes them using peer-reviewed scientific studies.

Green with ideology: The hidden agenda behind the "scientific" attacks on Bjorn Lomborg's controversial new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist

After some uncertainty, Merino's case was resolved when just the abstract of his contested preprint was left on the server but linked to its final, peer-reviewed article on the ACS Web site, say the director of ACS publications, Robert D.

The end of good science?; some chemists oppose posting research online. Others say, "get with the program!"

Institutional legitimation is a matter of the peer-review process and not a question of the medium in which peer-reviewed work is distributed.

Authors and readers: the keys to success or failure for electronic publishing

During my tenure on the Professional Liability Insurance Plan Committee, the committee began monitoring the claims activity of peer-reviewed firms against those that were not reviewed.